Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dcaf5f65ce7a91fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

81.5 KB Created: 2021-09-01 11:24:41 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-16
MD5: 45c8d886813f87686aa0dadb7f4c751f SHA-1: efd37e1c28bdae5da326269c0232927f41ed2eaa SHA-256: dcaf5f65ce7a91fe2c0be4c57a55bb77dabf61999626693771111cdf0d2758df
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204.002 Malicious Link

The PDF contains a link farm with numerous external URLs, several of which point to compromised CMS upload directories. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent, likely for phishing or distributing further malware. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the heuristic findings are sufficient to assess the attack pattern.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9974

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://cottingham-group.com/cufiles/files/33021596986.pdf In PDF document text
    • http://alliusie.com/userfiles/file/baror.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://hifitness.hu/userfiles/file/39045846646.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.kalirich.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/61013jmkj46hbn5tqqc26iuqp4/wisubekuzanovobowinopurin.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.timtransportes.com/home/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16084135498cf5---16099409537.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.superioreagle.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160abd1a5442f9---45738280558.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://veterina-hrib.cz/user-uploads/files/nufolivajazoluvolobax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://adiwirawanbali.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/325394b2fdc053d4c8a41e92f7d4c40d/rinefageruxixarafuxapa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://tycoonmedical.com/userfiles/file/ruvatimifatamidox.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://maugli24.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/9d85288bb3a12a880acb92640fed53c4/96737024910.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://landatur.com/files/galeria/files/56333126699.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://i-daa-wl.de/userfiles/51998483418.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.hotelrestaurantmacarena.fr/ckfinder/userfiles/files/56453265542.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dmddsgn.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/97267f3750bdb859bc4b72d2eff1cee6/34384849451.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://petek.biz/resimler/files/pozoburawekugujoret.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://globalclassic.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1ab8dt54anmoro9cmakeft43cp/59704563671.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.recetasyconsejos.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606cae9a9f51c---18803191353.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vodnik48.ru/content/file/wulanoxa.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.burit.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b6a8efb2530---visunoxojireforepenul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://rubenoferro.com/userfiles/file/toligefusitetojone.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://cipetbhopal.com/webimg/files/dafigusovex.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cryptoshift.be/anaeter_capital/siteadmin/userfiles/files/49350956390.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://havefuntogether.com/image/upload/File/pulemamazapibuj.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://staffxrecruitment.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/b7be9e6783396dfed17a459138ae8a28/buwekikefanavorobigavur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://feedproxy.google.com/~r/skout/mBVl/~3/zMnd8XtcwSM/uplcv?utm_term=clash+of+clans+update+trackerPDF link annotation
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000db3f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xDB3F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_01_sfnt_off0000f351.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xF351 17000 bytes
SHA-256: bfd66b90e692d4127b8400a8376837004e30133f84bc12143f535555e41911c5
font_02_sfnt_off00011f5b.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x11F5B 10848 bytes
SHA-256: e297f4602c1776f40354e7d15ce811714daf9fc103047a80d7e16038b4fd7f97